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Procurri greenlights $156.8m deal for maintenance business
Global IT company Park Place Technologies eyes Procurri’s third party maintenance business.
Procurri greenlights $156.8m deal for maintenance business
Global IT company Park Place Technologies eyes Procurri’s third party maintenance business.
CDLHT and Ascott Reit to gain from divestments to Liang Court developers: analyst
W Hotel, which CDLHT traded for, has a RevPAR of $318 per night.
Ezion to dispose stake in two companies by 30 November
The decision was made to cut operational costs.
Chart of the Day: Tiny condo units took up 80% of new sales in Q3
The percentage of units smaller than 500 sqft climbed to 15.1%.
Seoul property transactions hit US$15.4b in January-September
It takes the top spot as Asia’s most liquid city in terms of property.
Mobility, energy, and logistics sectors to get boost from Asian smart city plans
Distributed energy and drone deliveries are expected to drive demand for solutions in the coming decades.
92% of investors wary of firms using misleading accounting: survey
3 in 10 singled this out as the factor that would reduce their chances of investing in a firm.
SAC accidentally leaks personal data of 6,541 people through emails
The data was sent through emails to 22 organisations.
Industrial REITs lead Q3 NPI growth amongst S-REITs
ESR-REIT’s NPI doubled from its merger with Viva.
Bharti's tariff hikes in India could be boon for Singtel
This is expected to counter the telco’s weakening performance of its Singapore and Australia operations.
CDL Hospitality Trust buys two hotels for $799m
This move is part of its Liang Court Site redevelopment plans.
ST Engineering expands smart city business to Israel
It set up a subsidiary with an initial investment of $360,000.
The Future Skills That Singapore Needs Are Already Here
This year Singapore began implementing major changes to their education curriculum by shifting the emphasis away from standardised tests towards building critical thinking skills. This is a smart move, but it will take years for the effects to benefit organisations who need these “future skills” today. Companies can’t wait that long.
Re-thinking Reputation for businesses in Singapore, and achieving ‘surplus'
Reputation in a business context can be defined as: "the perception that people have about what an organisation is like". Such reputation can be said to be earned / established based on past events, and reputation either sits on a ‘surplus’ (positive) or ‘deficit’ (negative).
SPH REIT raises $164.5m in private placement
It will be used to partly fund the acquisition of an Australian shopping centre.
Mapletree Logistics Trusts gains $200m sustainability loan for credit facility
This is the first time a Singapore REIT has ventured into sustainable investing.
Wilmar eyes approval for China IPO bid in 2020
They are still awaiting approval from Chinese regulators.